New South Wales Consolidated Acts

HEAVY VEHICLE NATIONAL LAW (NSW) - SECT 466

466 Accreditation labels for maintenance management accreditation and mass management accreditation

(1) If the Regulator grants maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation to an operator of a heavy vehicle, the Regulator must give the operator an accreditation label for each relevant vehicle for the accreditation.

(2) If the operator amends the relevant management system to identify a new relevant vehicle for the accreditation--

(a) the operator may ask the Regulator for an accreditation label for the new relevant vehicle; and

(b) the Regulator must give the accreditation label to the operator.

(2A) The operator must attach the accreditation label for a relevant vehicle to the vehicle in a way that the label--

(a) is readable from outside the vehicle; and

(b) is not wholly or partly obscured, defaced or otherwise not legible.

: Maximum penalty--$3000.

Editorial note--: See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(2B) A person must not drive a relevant vehicle if the vehicle's accreditation label--

(a) is not attached to the vehicle; or

(b) is attached to the vehicle in a way that the label is wholly or partly obscured, defaced or otherwise not legible.

: Maximum penalty--$3000.

Editorial note--: See also section 737 (Increase of penalty amounts).

(3) In this section--

"accreditation label" , for a relevant vehicle for a maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation, means a label stating the number identifying the accreditation for attaching to the vehicle.

"relevant vehicle" , for a maintenance management accreditation or mass management accreditation, means a vehicle identified in the relevant management system as currently being operated in accordance with the management system.